Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

To hear Xiu Xiu is to be shaken, disturbed, and shown something original. Jamie Stewart sings haunted and tortured, though always with a sense of humor somewhere below the poisoned blood. "La Foret" is his most harrowing and beautiful to date, waltzing between acoustic parts so intimate you can hear his shoe scooting on the studio floor as he inches closer to the mic, and pounding dark-wave thunderstorms where electronics go Mogwai loud and Jamie screams over the hissing, spitting deluge. It's the type of record that leaves you seasick. Give your heart to the darkness; the rewards are immense.-amazon

Sunday, October 10, 2010

"On Another World, it's the title track, which finds him similarly stranded in transition-- "I need another world/ This one's nearly gone"-- while preemptively missing the plants, animals, and people of the world he's straining to escape. In other words, it's metamorphosis he both craves and fears, and both songs are perfectly poised between those two emotions." It's been said by Pitchforkmedia. I believe that they found they soul on this record. It is one of the darkest songs since the band released so far. I feel like I drive to a different world whenever I listen to the songs of them.

The album sits between the Electronic and Prog-Rock/Art Rock genres sound and features some of both Eno's and Cale's most mainstream work. The single "Been There, Done That" remains the only Eno single to ever reach an American chart. The cover picture is by Brian Eno.

005 album from the Swedish indie band. Following up from the melancholic,beautiful Vapen Och Ammunition in 2002, Du and Jag Doden is a darker and more intense work,full of foreboding and typical swedish existential angst. The album debuted in pole position in Sweden.

Friday, October 1, 2010

The album was a big success in Europe, and a modest success in the UK. Things were worse in the USA because George was not able to tour and promote the record there due to drugs-related restrictions, so the record charted only in the lower regions of the U.S. Top 200, even though he was a multi-platinum artist with Culture Club in previous years. The album was instead a huge hit in Italy, where it became the artist's highest-charting and bestselling work ever - not even his band Culture Club, though extremely popular in that country, ever achieved such an outcome there.